(Lester Knutsen) IBM Informix 12.10 was announced and released on March 26, 2013, but I was in South Africa working on a project and missed the launch webcast. Two days later, I was speaking at the launch of the South Africa Informix User Group with Stuart Litel, president of IIUG, and Jerry Keesee,

(Michael Krafick) It happens. We joke that it doesn’t. Make sure not tell our Oracle or SQL Server counterparts but occasionally DB2 becomes … How do I put this eloquently? Hosed.

(Dave Beulke) The BLU Acceleration technology is coming out and the new DB2 Version 10.5 Kepler performance improvements are game changing and dramatic especially for Big Data. I blogged about these features in a more detailed entry (IBM BLU Acceleration – Best Yet for Big Data!).

(Robert Catterall) It’s an age-old requirement — one that’s been around as long as DB2 itself: ensure that a particular group of users can see only certain rows in a given table, and/or ensure that values in a certain column of the table are transformed before being returned to users in the group.

(Julian Stuhler) In last month’s column, IDUG president Joe Borges outlined his vision for IDUG in the organization’s 25th year. But IDUG isn’t alone in celebrating 2013; this year also marks 30 years since IBM DB2 for z/OS became generally available. In an industry as fast-moving as ours, it’s an a

(Sumanth Rajagopal) The IBM OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix is a web application for administering and analyzing the performance of IBM Informix database servers. You can now use OAT to administer Informix Warehouse Accelerator. Informix Warehouse Accelerator processes warehouse queries more quick

(Craig S. Mullins) So far in this series on DB2 locking we have offered up a broad overview of what locking is and then delved into the world of table and table space locks. In this short entry, before we tackles page and row locks, we are going to look at the difference between a lock and a latch.

(Philip) From my holiday reading and from watching the most excellent DB2 Night Show and specifically an episode that was done a while back by Iqbal Goralwalla of Triton Consulting (@iqbalgoralwalla) on “DB2 LUW 10.1 Cool Features No One is Talking About” I have come across Usage Lists for tables an

(Peter Broadhurst and Patrick Marie) This article shows you how to use WebSphere Message Broker message aggregation and collection to manage batch processing according to dynamic rules.

(Jack Vamvas) Question : In my application, I am receiving SQL from other application. I want to validate that SQL text on my client. I don’t want to add the performance overhead to the database , what options are available?